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If you're smoking joints on the bank then I sincerely hope I don't meet you driving home the morning after!
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You might find this CNN Japlish version amusing (look at the full story as well)
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The Environment Agency have had very little input into a lot of these venues. Many of them have been stocked with little thought of Section 30's or indeed planning permission and are purely there as a source of income for the owner. If the fish are poor quality then provided there's plenty of them and they sell day tickets then all is fine. After all, small carp are cheap to buy in bulk.matt&shevonne:IF THE NRA HAVE GIVEN THE OK FOR THE FISHERIES THEN IT IS OK AND IM SURE THE LAST THING THE FISHERIES WANT IS TO BE HARMING THERE FISH BE REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I had NFU insurance for the Impreza Turbo for 3 years until their underwriters realised just how many Imprezas they had on their books and priced them out of the market.
Subaru Forester is reasonable off road and still much like a car on-road. There's even a 240bhp import version if you're brave!
If you want something big and good value then have a look at the Ssanjong Musso (or however it's spelt). Was originally part of the Subaru dealer network until Daewoo bought it & changed the name, but the originals had a big Mercedes diesel engine and were an awful lot of car for the money.
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Did you have a filter in the tank before or just relied on an under-gravel one? If it's new then what you're doing is stopping the under-gravel filter from doing it's job fully but because the new filter won't have had time to build up its bacteria stock yet you've actually effectively decreased the biological filtration. What you're seeing in the water is fish waste that hasn't been cleaned up by the bacteria, but it should clear in a few days once the bacteria have colonised the new filter.
Once it's up and running never clean the cartridge under the tap - you need the bacteria in the filter medium and tap water will kill them.
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I remember going out around the hedgerows of North Shropshire collecting damsons so that my Mum could make jam and pies. We also used to get baskets of them from friends with trees who didn't want to cook them. Mum used to make enough to last a whole year and any left over supplied the local coffee mornings and charity sales. Now I live down south nobody seems to collect the damsons - they just rot where they fall.
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Computer contractor, currently working as a Test Manager for large medical insurance company and rather wish I wasn't. Also have a small pet care franchise although currently that's mostly the wifes job - I just pay the bills! (see sig for details)
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It's just another version of vandalism except they don'thave to get offtheir backsides to do it so it seems safer. Some vandals spray grafitti, some slash train seats, some burn bus shelters, and the nerds write viruses.Alan Taylor:Why do these people make these virus's in the first place? They must be cleaver people, why can't they channel there efforts into doing some thing good?
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PC Plus has a big review this month and they recommend the following :-
Best value - Canon i320 (£49)
Best performer - HP Deskjet 5150 (£89)
Editors Choice - Canon i850 (£151)
i320 - extremely good quality print for the price & faster than it claims, cheapish running costs.
HP 5150 - fastest print, draft mode exceptional quality. Good photo quality and cheaper to run than cheaper printers in range. Bit noisy though.
i850 - extremely fast, cheap print cost, superb photo printing, "expensive but worth every penny" (their description).
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Congratulations to the England Womens Team for retaining their world title. Sandra Scotthorne also retained the individual title with Wendy Locker taking silver. Well done ladies
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It does appear to work, but WD40 is not exactly the worlds most environmentally friendly substance which is good enough reason not to use it. Far better off using fish oils or similar if you want to spray baits.nigelnibbles:
Has anyone ever used WD40 as a bait attraction. When recently fishing Brid a couple of people told me they spray WD40 on their baits when fishing, not sure if they were pulling my plonker or if they were serious. :confused: so does anyone us it, or is it bull
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It's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle that went out of fashion 6 months after it was bought and so got dumped. They're everywhere these days.
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Depends a bit on the wording of the ban. Is it a ban on cereal groundbait or just the word groundbait? I've always thought that if you loosefeed with a hookbait then that isn't groundbaiting provided the intention is the the fish to intercept the bait on the way down. If your intention is to create a carpet of food on the lake bed then that is groundbaiting (you're baiting the ground).
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Yes, Drayton Reservoir has to be completely drained to do necessary work on the dam & outflow pipe. The fish are to be moved to Naseby Resorvoir (subject to EA approval) and at 100,000lb will be the biggest mass fish move ever. Naseby is then going to be developed as a specimen water and Draycote will be restocked wth smaller carp and should reopen around April next year.
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You'd think after nearly 2500 posts I'd know how to not double post wouldn't you
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The fines are low, but sadly that's nothing to do with the EA - it's the magistrates that hand down the sentences. The maximum is I think £2500 but no magistrate ever fines the maximum allowable in any case for any offence. Most will also have to pay costs as well which can nearly double the bill. One thing to be considered however is that it get's you a criminal record. This will effect things like credit ratings, insurance, job applications etc, and if you don't tell them you have a criminal record I believe it's an offence.
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Ziffy - I'd have thought with the new disability discrimination laws that any venue being awkward on the grounds of disability would be skating on very thin ice!
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I think what you've got there is a species of hawk moth, and quite possibly the UK's biggest moth - the Privet Hawk-moth (Sphinx ligustri). The head doesn't seem as dark as the photos I've found (could be because it was wet), but the red and black makes it pretty distinctive.
Try these links : Linke 1
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Just a thought, but when driving a car you have to spot and react 'in a tiny time gap' to real-life hazards. If they give you ten seconds to click then in the real world you've already hit it and done a few thousands pounds worth of damage!Koi Carp:I just failed my theory driving test. I passed on the questions bit but failed on the silly 'hazard awarness' test. Spotting the hazards was easy but the technology behind the system means you need to click in a tiny time gap. The guy sorting me out said the people who pass it are the people who click loads :confused: . Oh well, at least i have had a practice. Will try again in a few weeks.
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The only place I can recall that did courses like this was Ian Heaps place which is in Wales somewhere I think. I certainly don't recall seeing any 'fishing camps' as such being advertised anywhere I afraid.
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Without joining a club I think the only way would be to pick a venue that has regular matches and then fish it as much as you possibly can and try and learn it. Also you'll need to attend as many matches as possible, not to fish but to watch and learn. Once you're confident you can catch regularly and well then that is the time to start entering the matches, but don't expect to make too much in your first year. There are very few anglers who even break even match fishing - for most it's an expensive way of going fishing!
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That's another name for MSBlast. Have a look at the Symantec description for how to fix it.
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Go to www.wigglywigglers.co.uk and look at the Wastejuggler or Can-o-Worms. Both good products.
Something I discovered recently - many councils have special schemes where they sell composters and the like cheaply to try and encourage recycling. Might well be worth looking on your local council website and see if they have anything available.